Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margherita Clement, comely, 22-year-old Philadelphia socialite, ex-Powers model, smacked a damage suit on the man who last year stabbed her with a paring knife and hit her over the head with a whiskey bottle in the powder room of Philadelphia's Hotel Barclay. (Her attacker, onetime Soldier Socialite Sidney B. Dunn Jr., who gave as his reason, "She won't marry me and I'll fix her or kill her so she won't marry anybody else," is now serving a three-to-seven-year prison term.) Miss Clement asked $25,000 damages...
...curve, the faster the air travels. This accelerated air, moving faster than the plane, may reach supersonic speeds and create local shock waves, known to airmen as "compressibility burble." Designers have reduced this hazard by giving wings and propellers thinner leading edges; these are now shaped more like a knife than a teardrop. But the biggest advance is the jet-propelled plane. The part of a plane that first feels supersonic effects is its whirling propeller, whose tips reach a very high speed. By eliminating the propeller entirely, the jet-propelled plane raises the airplane's speed ceiling...
...chute harness slipped up around my neck in a strangle hold, covering the knife in my breast pocket. I was helpless, a perfect target for snipers and I could hear some of them not far away...
...Italian boot so rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...tried to hurry on. Two pursuers blocked their path, insisted: "Are you Jews?" "No," said Poor. He was not-Gilbert was. They quickened their pace. When Poor, to cover his nervousness, reached into his pocket for matches to light a cigaret, one of the gang yelled: "They have a knife!" Seven or eight boys leaped on the two freshmen. Badly mauled, both spent the night in Stillman Infirmary, Peter Poor had two stitches taken...